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Loup City Northwestern GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA, Seme men borrow trouble and oth ers leave their porch chairs out on Hallowe’en. Who will want to keep on trying to be a millionaire after what Marie Correlli has said? When you remember how wide the world is, it is astonishing how many people get in your way. Spain wants a new navy. She has been looking on the remnants of her old one with Dew-ey eyes. The sad case of Charles M. Schwab should be a warning to the American “hustler”—and this is r.o joke. Rabbi Hirsch is going after the story of Mother Eve and the apple. Ilut why make assaults on the dead? Educated cats are all the rage row in Parisian society. This seems to be a case of education going to waste. If Gen. Uribe-Uribe would uncouple 1 is name and manage to get on with half of it the press would be obliged to him. Gambling hns increased to such an extent in Europe that another Moute Carlo is to be established and suicide made easier. Shamrock III. will be longer than Upton's two former boats, but he hopes it will not be any longer in making the race. The man who has a deck of cards and knows how to play solitaire is the only one who is sure to be able to get into the game. There are a whole lot of people who will agree with the Peoria judgo in his condemnation of jail life. They've been there. An Iowa judge decides that the val ue of a baby is $3,000 in cash. Yet there are lots of people who won’t have one at any price. Toledo springs to the front with a novelty. A young couple eloped and were married on board the train. The irate parents were not even on their track. A Chicago student attending Hobart college has been "accidentally” kicked to death in a football game. Acci dents will happen even in football games. Dr. Grossman is of the opinion that young liars are caused by indigestion. If that be so, mothers should substi tute tincture of rhubarb for the switch. That Cleveland man’s platform in which he promised not to wear a dress suit if elected to congress ha3 at least the merit of being easily un derstood. George F. Baer, the tyrannical coal king, began life very poor. And how hard the very poor who have become rich can be to the very poor who are still very poor. Apostle Reed Smoot, the Utah as pirant for the United States Senate, may or may not be a polygamist, but a man with a name like that might bo guilty of anything. A New York lady who sued for $25, 000 for breach of promise has been awarded damages in the sum of six cents. That ought to take the con ceit out of the fellow. Walking Shield, a bad Indian, has ueen hanged for killing his prospec tive mother-in-law. Eventually white men also will have to recognize that mothers-in-law have rights. Finger prints are now utilized in the courts fcr establishing the iden tity of persons. Little children should 1 e warned that mamma can discover ■vho put their dirty hands on the wall paper. Probably if Uncle Sam could estab lish a belief that fishing worms are plentiful along the line of the Panama canal he cculd get an army of rooters to tear up a hole down there without paying for it. In an Ohio town a father named Kohl lias named hi3 helpless infant daughter Anthracite. We trust that there will be as great a demand for Anthracite Kohl eighteen years henco as there Is now. A man returned $0 to the Great Northern railway for a ride he tooli twenty-two years before. As yet no tramp has appeared to give up ten rents for a drink he bummed from a bartender in the past. On the society page of a Chicago dally is printed a two-column half tone portrait of a handsome woman with lines under it telling that she is Mrs. Whatsername, former wife of Mr. Whatdyeallim, "who weds again soon after obtaining a divarce.” It is hard to imagine anything more exquisitely Chicago than this. Mary MacLar.e has abandoned the hope of discovering the devil in the cast and has gone back to her Sand and Barrenness. Mary' is the kind of a looker the devil usually side-steps. ROAD NEAR GRANSTOWN. BAHAMAS NEW YORK’S GREAT CATHEDRAL. Bishop Potter of the Episcopal iioceso of New York, recently went jp to Morningside Heights to inspect ;he work being done on the largest cathedral that has been undertaken in lenturies. He was accompanied by in ecelesiastictal friend from the west, who, in the course cf the in spection. said to him: “I can’t begin to grasp the bigness of this cathedral of yours. For the ast ten years I’ve been hearing about the record-breaking dimensions of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and t've marvelled thereat. “But now that I am here on the j grasp an idea of the magnificent pro | portions of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the intricate and deli cate architectural problems that its construction has brought forward. Just one big little thing will give a fair impression of the vast task the cathedral’s builders have assumed. It is the intention to begin wArk on the choir of the cathedral this fall. The choir will be 120 feet long, fifty four feet wide, and its ceiling 108 feet above the floor. It will have an area of 6.480 square feet. On the cathedral grounds is a $25,000 stone mill, erected for the ex The Cathedral of St. John the Divine—Shaded Parts Show the Extent of The Work Done in the Last Ter? Years. uuuim my iuuiu ucwiiuncu store by what my eyes have seen and ny ears heard. I scarcely can com prehend the immensity of the task.” "My dear brother," was the bishop’s try response, ‘‘wa re in the same soat.” No snch building ha3 been project ed since the Middle Ages. Then it .vas that cathedrals were begun which were not completed for hundreds of >ears. The average lay mind can scarcely vi uuac ui tut; tauituidi. i.a.11 jru» forty stone cutters, with the aid of the latest improved machinery, dressed and finished 10,000 cubic yards of stone. Working at this rate, which means working every day in the year except Sundays and holidays, it will take these forty men ten years to dress and finish the necessary amount of stone for the choir’s interior. The stone workers began this long task a few days ago. HAS DAVY CROCKETT’S RIFLE. Valuable Relic Owned by Tennessee Secretary of State. One of the most Interesting relies on exhibition in the office of Secretary cf State Crockett is the rifle which was presented by admiring friends to his great grandfather, the immortal I Davy Crockett, hero of the Alamo and author of the equally immortal phrase: “Be sure you are right and then go ahead.’’ This gun was carried ! by the grandson of the first owner, ; the late Gen. “Bob’’ Crockett, who j lought down much game with it, but j now it lias oeen retired with honor i and full pay to pass the remainder of ! its days, or centuries, as a relic ol one cf the greatest characters this country has ever produced. It is a formidable-looking weapon, origi nally of the flint-lock type, with a 40 caliber bore. The barrel was origi nally forty-six inches long, but some of it has been cut off and it is now only forty and a half inches. It was presented to David Crockett soon after his second election to congress in 1829, by some of his admiring young whig friends of Philadelphia. It cost $250 and was made especially lor him. The donqrs raised the money by contributing half a dollar each to the fund. The stock is trimmed in sterling silver, appropriately designed w ith figures of the Goddess of Liberty, a raccoon, a deer's head and other iigures. Along the upper part of the barrel are the letters, set into the metal in gold, some of which has worn out: “Presented by the Young Men of Philadelphia to the Hon. Da vid Crockett of Tennessee.” In simi lar letters near the muzzle are the words: "Go ahead.”—Memphis Com mercial Appeal. “Tim” Sullivan Is Temperate. “Tim” Sulllivan, who has come to the front so strongly in New York city politics of late, has been a saloon keeper for many years, but it is not of record that anyone ever saw him take a drink. In Albany at one time he was taken seriously ill and a physician ordered him to take a stimulant. “Don't you think I can pull through without whisky?’ asked Tim. “You might,” was the reply, "but you are so frightfully run down that I don’t think you ought to risk it.” Tim re flected for a minute and said: "I’ll take the chance. D—n if I'll take a drink.” And he didn't. -iOW DIAMONDS MAY EXPLODE. "ases in Which Only Ordinary Degree of Heat Is Necessary. It has long been known that dia monds, especially the class known as 'rose diamonds,” are likely to explode tf subjected only to what would seem a very ordinary degree of heat, such as strong rays from the sun, etc. It is now believed that the explosions are the result of the rapid expansion of certain volatile liquids inclosed in cavi- j ties near the center of these precious stones. A great many diamonds, even though cut, mounted and worn as gems of perfection, are still in an unfinished condition—that is, the liquid drop from which the stone is being formed has not as yet deposited all of its "pure crystals of carbon." These movable drops may occasionally be seen with the naked eye. When this Is the case, a strong mi croscope will give the drop the appear ance of a bubble in the fluid of a carpenter's level. It is also highly probable that besides the liquid men tioned these cavities may contain gases under great tension. This being the case, one may readily comprehend how a very small amount of heat would cause the liquid and gas to ex jiand to such a degree that the dia mond would give way with all the characteristics of a miniature explo sion. Seeks to Stop Dueling. Signor Ottolenghl, Italian Minister of War, has practically put a stop to dueling by imprisoning those partici pants who escape death. Turned-ln toes are often found with preoccupied absent-mlned persons. MARCONI’S GLACE BAY STATION This is a picture of Marconi’s new wireless telegraphy station at Glaco bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The inventor is now on his way across the Atlantic to make, long-distance tests with his improved apparatus and put the station in practical operation. Since he last visited this country Marconi has been occupied in improv ing tils machinery for wireless telegra phy. Sixty English warships and twenty-seven commercial vessels are at present using his system of signals. In England there are forty-one sta tions of the Lloyds using it under contract. In the United States the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company ot America has been organized, with a capital of $6,s00,000 to control all the business, including Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines. Thero is, in addition to this company, a com pany in England and one in Belgium. C. M. SCHWAB FAILED ONCE He Tried to Be a Horseshoer, but the Horse Objected and He Quit "Even a great man has to rhoose his trade. Ho can't succeed nt any eld thing.” a horseshoer told an outsider i at the recent Philadelphia convention J '-'f the trade. "A genius in the iron trade once tried mine and gave it up 1 after ope attempt. “You've heard of Charles M Schwab, the steel magnate who is building a palace for himself in New York with a few of his millions. Well, he tried to shoe a horse once and ’ouldn’t do it. • ' It was when he was a young man I JjIst about old enough to earn kis own living. Me used to take his father's i horse to the shop of Pat Moran, the horseshoer in Loretto village, to bo 1 shod. Time and Lime again he asked Pat to let him nail on a shoe. Ho seemed to like the business. ! ^ " ‘Ah, g’wan,’ Pnt would tell him. ^ er can’t shoe yerself. Yer daddy has to do it for yer.’ Hut young Schwab stuck to it and finally one day the smith let him try ** And he bungled it so that after a while the patient horse landed out with his foot and away went the youngster to the other side of the smithy. I guess I can never learn horse shoeing,’ he said when he picked him self up. ‘‘He never tried again, but took up a trade of which he could make kim i -self the master. "He calls to see Moran whenever be goes home to Loretto now, and they talk about how a promising re cruit to the trade gave It up. “ ‘Well, he couldn’t shoe a horse, whatever else he’s able to do,’ the blacksmith says when he hears about another of Mr. Schwab’s successes.” HJH THE NEXT GENTLEMAN Street Gamin's Fellow Feeling for Thooe in Distress. An amusing incident was witnessed in a cigar store on Chestnut street the other afternoon. A newsboy, having picked up a cigar stump, walked in and, addressing the man behind the counter, said: "Say, boss, give us a match.” The man be hind the counter, looking down, said: My young friend, we are not here for the purpose of giving away matches; we sell them.” “How much are dey?” was the question. “One cent a box.” the clerk announced. The urchin stuck his hand into his pocket and produced, after a great deal of hunt ing, a penny and handed it to the man. He received his box of matches, and, taking one out. lit the "butt.” Return ing the box to tho- man back of the case, he said: “Say, put dis back on de shelf, and when a gentleman comes along and asks you for a match, why, ?ive him one out of my box.”—Phila delphia Times. Wrong Environment. Louis Evan Shipman, the novelist and playwright, when in Philadelphia a fortnight ago, looking after his inter ests in Actor Hackett’s performances of “The Crisis ” told of an aged negress who, visiting in a strange town, strolled into a Episcopal church that had a “Strangers Welcome” pla card displayed at the door. She was a good Zionist, and very regular and devout with regard to the services in her own church at home. The respon iive reading arid the frequent “Amens” interested her and, in time, made her very fervid; and she began to punctu ate the service with lusty “Hallelu jahs.” She attracted attention, and finally was approached by the sexton, who said: “Madam, you cannot carry on that way here.” “But I'se got religion!” she explain ed, ecstatically. “That may be so,” answered the sexton, “but madam, this is no place to show it.” Fagged Out. (This poprn is an imitation of Paul K<'» ter'a “1 Want to Go Home." Too tired to originate.—Author's Note.) I want to let go. To drop the whole thing, The worries, the frets. The sorrows, tho sins; Just to let myself down On the Vied or the ground— Anywhere, so It s down— And let myself go. And the folks? I don’t rare; And iny business? The same. Hell and heaven? Too tired. I want to forget. And don't want to sny What I want to forget. And I don’t want to think; Just to let down my nerves. Just to smooth out my bra'in, Just to sleep. And that’s all. Please leave me alone With your pillows and things; ’Tisn’t that that I want. Nor a doctor, nor folks. 1 lust want to let go, Oh, I want to let go. —Amos It. Wells In Lhpplncott's Maga zine. Career of Admiral Selfridge. The lace Admiral Selfridge's eighty four years’ service in the navy came j near covering the entire history of an ; American sea power. The admiral cn I tered the navy as a midshipman and was retired thirty-six years ago. His ; son of the same name, who was grndu | ated from the naval academy in 1854, 1 also attained the rank of rear admir al, and went on the retired list in 1898. : The late admiral's grandson is in tho | service now. The elder Selfriuge, > who was a contemporary of Farragut, was said to be at the time of his death, tho oldest naval oflicer in the world, Admiral Sir Henry Keppel ot the British navy being five years his junior. i To be born without humor one loses two-thirds of life’s enjoyment The only advice that we willingly accept is that which tits into our own desires. •‘I owe my whole life to Burdock Blood Bitters Scrofulous soroB covered my body. I seemed beyond cure. B B. B bos made tno a perfectly well woman.”—Mrs. Chaa. Hutton, Berville, Mich. Success makes some people forget how they wrestled with their first baby. The best way to cure Indigestion Is to remove its cause. This is best done by the prompt use of Dr. August Koe nig’s Hamburg Drops, which regulate the stomach In an effectual manner. What constitutes one man’s happi ness may be another’s misery. HALF RATES. Plus $2 no. one way or round trip, via Wabash Railroad. Tickets on sale first and third Tuesdays of ouch month to many points south and southeast. Aside from this tickets are on sale to all the winter resorts of the south at greatly reduced rates. The Wabash Is the short est, quickest and h> st line for St. Louis and all points south and southeast. Ask >our nearest ticket agent to route yuu via the Wabash. I1'or rates, folders and all information call at Wabash corner, ltiOl Farnam street, Omaha, or address, HARRY E. MOORES. Gen. Pass. Agt. Dept., Omaha, Neb. Sycophants generally bill them selves with an overdose of thet rowa medine. Water for Jerusalem. Work has finally been completed on a new water service whereby the en tire city of Jerusalem is supplied with water from King Solomon’s ‘‘Sealed Fountain,” seven miles south of tho city. When faith is lost and honor dies, the man is dead.—Whittier. Eleven Points In the Evidence. Fast trains that make time; smooth and level tracks; charming scenery; luxurious through sleeping cars; excel lent dining cars; barber shop and bath; stock reports and daily and weekly papers; ladies’ maids and sten ographers; buffets and libraries; courteous and attentive employes, and centrally located stations, are a few of the reasons for the marvelous pas senger traffic of the New York Central Lines. Honduras Stamps to Be Made Here. The government of Honduras has decided to have its postage stamps and postal cards engraved abroad this year and the work is to be done in the United States, according to a re port from Consul W. E. Alger of Puer to Cortez. The government has also arranged for a supply of silver cofn to be minted in Phlladeinhia. When an old man tackles religion it raises a doubt as to his staying qualities. In the endless race for wealth men are too prone to forget the ordinary claims of humanity. In Winter Use Allen’s Foot-Ease. A powder. Your feet feel uncom fortable, nervous and often cold and damp. If you have sweating, sore feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25 cents. Sample sent free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, I.o Roy, N. Y. There is no index to character so sure as the voice.—Disraeli. I do not believe Pino's Cure for Consumption bus an diual for cough* and colds.—Joh.n IP Bo’Eh, Uriuity Springs. Jn:i., Pub. liKAl Boston may drive away a few of the shivers with synthetical coal. WHY IT IS Tin: WEST la because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Sian li is unlike any other, belter and oiie littiu mute for Id cents. 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